The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those … - Jacob M. Appel

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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

Jacob M. Appel

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

Challenges, Clouds, Dangerous, Dangerous Ideas, Ideas, Inevitability

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While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

Draw, Like, Order, Organization, People, Protests

I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research--or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.

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A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

Free, Healthy, Individual, Individuals, Names, Society

I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square--but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

Death, Grateful, Practical, Rights, Squares

Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.

Finding, Finding The One, Key, Keys, People, Person

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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

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And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

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